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Communication Studies
Volume 58(3), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Harter, Lynn M., and Buzzanell, Patrice M. (Re)storying organizational communication theory and practice: Continuing the conversation about spirituality and work 223-236
 
  As we take up our conversations about organizing and spirituality that we began with the publication of our 2006 Communication Studies special issue on disrupting secular hegemony, we have been delighted to reencounter the three essays we offer in this section 
 
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religion
critical theory
narrative
semiotic theory
 
 
Considine, Jennifer R. The dilemmas of spirituality in the caring professions: Care-provider spiritual orientation and the communication of care 227-242
 
  An analysis of 19 care-provider interviews demonstrates four different orientations toward spirituality: exclusive spirituality, inclusive spirituality, conflicted spirituality, and spirituality as separate from care 
 
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religion
interpersonal
 
 
Frye, Joshua, Kisselburgh, Lorraine G., and Butts, David Embracing spiritual followership 243-260
 
  While academics and organizational practitioners consider secular leadership as the locus of vision construction, moral direction, meaning making, and mobilization of human resources, the ways in which followers construct identities, relationships, discourses, and practices that support, challenge, and transform leader-follower relationships and organizing processes and outcomes remain unaddressed 
 
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organizational
small group roles
religion
interpersonal
 
 
Scott, Jennifer A. Our callings, our selves: Repositioning religious and entrepreneurial discourses in career theory and practice 261-279
 
  The purpose of this study is to integrate and extend career development theory by focusing on the metaphor of "calling." In order to understand the impact of calling narratives on organizational life, I analyze how students understand and construct the meaning of work at a small Christian liberal arts college in the eastern United States 
 
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theory
narrative
organizational
 
 
Holladay, Sherry J., and Seipke, Heather L. Communication between grandparents and grandchildren in geographically dispersed relationships 281-297
 
  This study examined grandparents' reports of the use of three media - face-to-face, telephone, and e-mail - in geographically dispersed relationships with grandchildren 
 
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interpersonal
technologies
computer
family
 
 
Martin, Paul, and Renegar, Valerie "The man for his time" The Big Lebowski as carnivalesque social critique 299-313
 
  This essay explores the ability of carnivalesque rhetorical strategies to challenge hegemonic social hierarchies and the social order in general 
 
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film
rhetoric
 
 
Rabby, Michael K. Relational maintenance and the influence of commitment in online and offline relationships 315 - 337
 
  The study of relational-maintenance behaviors has sometimes included the impact of medium as a peripheral variable, but rarely has the impact of medium been tested directly 
 
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interpersonal
marriage and intimacy
computer